Simon-
Thanks for the tip...I trued using the htmlspecialchars() which allowed the
remainder of the form to display properly, but left no value in the
textarea. Then I noticed a difference in the method I was using compared to
yours - I'm still learning the ways of PHP so it will take me a while to
determine the significance of the syntax differences:
Mine: <td width = "60%"><?php echo $linkurl . '<br><textarea
value="htmlspecialchars($linkurl)"></textarea></td>\n' ?>
Yours: <?php echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . "</textarea>" ?>
I wanted a graphical representation of the present link displayed above the
textarea and then attempted to use php's substitution to build the text area
within the same string. I updated my code to be more like yours and arrived
at:
<?php echo $linkurl . '<br><form>'?><?php echo "<textarea>" .
htmlspecialchars($linkurl) . "</textarea>\n"?>
which seems to make the parser behave as I intended.
Anyway...thanks!
-- Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Garner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes
>
> Don't worry about quotes - the problem is that you have HTML markup inside
> your <textarea>. You just need to convert < and > to < and >,
> respectively, in your link text. The functions htmlspecialchars() or
> strip_tags() can do this for you.
>
> i.e.:
>
> <? echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . "</textarea>" ?>
>
> When the form is submitted (and when it's viewed), those entities will be
> converted back to their real characters automatically by the browser.
>
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